Short CV

• PhD Candidate at the Parenting, Child Care and Development programme group, Leiden University. Research project: ‘The What and How in weaning: A randomised controlled trial to assess the effects of vegetable exposure and responsive feeding on vegetable acceptance in infants and toddlers’ (2015-present).
• Research Assistant at Leiden University, Department of Neuropedagogics (2014-2015). Project: ‘A good start’.
• MSc in ‘Developmental psychopathology in education and child studies’, Leiden University (Research). Specialization: Clinical child and adolescent studies (2012-2014). Master thesis: ‘The relation between maternal depression and the infant stress response system: The role of positive parenting’.
• Research Internship. Project: ‘A good start’, Leiden University (2013-2014).
• Clinical Internship at the Ambulatorium, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Science, Leiden University. Department of Developmental Disorders (2013-2014).
• BSc in Education and Child Studies. Specialization: Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies, Leiden University (2009-2012).
• BSc in Music Teaching, Royal Conservatory Den Haag (2005-2009). Cum Laude.

Research areas and activities

• Obesity in children
• Prevention and intervention studies
• Parent-child interactions

Teaching activities

• Tutor first year students Education and Child Studies
• Practice in empirical research
• Onderzoekspracticum 1
• Master thesis lab
• Master thesis and BA thesis project supervision

Registrations

• NVO Basis Orthopedagoog
• NVO Basisaantekening Diagnostiek
• Startcursus Didactische Basisvaardigheden – ICLON  

Supervisors

• Prof. dr. Judi Mesman
• Dr. Shelley van der Veek

See Dutch profile Merel van Vliet

Publications